Fair Work Amendment (Notice of Employee Representational Rights) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 23 February 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Michaelia Cash

Minister for Employment

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Fair Work Regulations 2009

Part 2—Application and transitional provisions

Fair Work Regulations 2009

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fair Work Amendment (Notice of Employee Representational Rights) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Fair Work Act 2009.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Fair Work Regulations 2009

1  Regulation 2.05

Omit “subsection 174(6)”, substitute “subsection 174(1A)”.

2  Schedule 2.1

Omit “Fair Work Act 2009, subsection 174(6)”, substitute “Fair Work Act 2009, subsection 174(1A)”.

3  Schedule 2.1

Omit all the words after the heading “Questions?”, substitute:

If you have any questions about this notice or about enterprise bargaining, please speak to your employer or bargaining representative, or contact the Fair Work Ombudsman or the Fair Work Commission.

Part 2—Application and transitional provisions

Fair Work Regulations 2009

4  After Chapter 6

Insert:

Chapter 7—Transitional provisions

Part 7‑1—Amendments made by the Fair Work Amendment (Notice of Employee Representational Rights) Regulations 2017

7.01  Application of amendments—notice of employee representational rights

  The amendments made by Schedule 1 to the Fair Work Amendment (Notice of Employee Representational Rights) Regulations 2017 apply in relation to a notice of employee representational rights given under subsection 173(1) of the Fair Work Act 2009 after the commencement of that Schedule.